Amshan Kumar

Amshan Kumar
Born Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
Occupation Film director and Writer
Years active 1995 – present

Amshan Kumar is an Indian filmmaker and writer. He has won a National Film Award for his documentary film Yazhpanan Thedchanamoorthy - Music beyond boundaries in the year 2015.[1][2][3] This is a lone Tamil non-fiction film to win a National Award in the past 17 years prior to this award [4] He is also a writer on films, his book Cinema Rasanai on film appreciation is being used as a textbook in many universities.[5] His debut feature film Oruththi was selected for the 2003 International Film Festival of India and was screened in the Indian Panorama section.[6][7][8] His second feature film Manusangada was screened in the 39th Cairo International Film Festival and also in the 48th International Film Festival of India (2017) in the Indian Panorama section.[9][10] He lives in Chennai.

Career

Amshan Kumar has made more than twenty five documentaries including Badal Sircar`s Third Theatre, Modern Art in Tamil Nadu,[11] Mangrove Forests, Nobel Laureate C.V.Raman, U.Ve.Saminatha Iyer, Tamil Poet Subramania Bharati[12] and Manakkal S.Rangarajan. His first directorial feature film in Tamil Oruththi selected for was shown in Indian Panorama based on a short novel by the renowned writer Ki. Rajanarayanan . It won the best film awards from Government of Pondicherry and Tamil Association of New Jersey.[13] His documentary on the Tavil Maestro Yazhpanam Thedchanmoorthy won the national award for the best arts/ cultural film in 2015.[3] It is the first Tamil non-feature film to win a National Award in 17 years.[14]

His second feature film Manusangada was selected in the Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India , Goa and was the only Tamil film to be selected that year.[15] The film had its world priemere in Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival[16] and its International Premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival.[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf
  2. ↑ "Documentary maker from Chennai bags national award". Times of India. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Thavil Doyen's Lost Beats Come Alive".
  4. ↑ Menon, Vishal. "Thavil recitals from across the Palk Strait".
  5. ↑ "AMSHAN KUMAR - Public Service Broadcasting Trust".
  6. ↑ "IFFI".
  7. ↑ "International Film Festival of India-2003".
  8. ↑ "The Hindu : About 'Oruthi'".
  9. ↑ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/iffi-goa-2017-tamil-film-manusangada-to-be-screened-in-indian-panorama-of-international-film-festival-in-goa/articleshow/61588149.cms
  10. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/manusangada-screened-at-iffi/article20946948.ece
  11. ↑ "Evolution of modern art".
  12. ↑ "The Hindu : A maker of truthful cinema".
  13. ↑ GERALD, OLYMPIA SHILPA. "Charmed by celluloid".
  14. ↑ menon, vishal. "The thavil that united Tamils".
  15. ↑ "Manusangada screened at IFFI". The Hindu. Goa, India. 27 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "Mumbai Academy of Moving Image - ProgrammeDetail Site". Mumbai Film Fest.
  17. ↑ "மனுசங்கடா (Manusangada) is going to Egypt!". Tamil Information Centre. 11 November 2017.
  18. ↑ "Cairo Film Festival: Tamil Film Manusangada Highlights a Grave Social Injustice - News18". News18. Cairo,Egypt. 29 November 2017.
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